subject: Why You Need More Challenging Swim Workouts In Your Life [print this page] Unless you swam competitively in the past, you may not know exactly how to create challenging swim workouts. The vast majority of recreational swimmers that I see when I head to the pool for a workout tend to "just swim."
Just the other day I was talking with a woman who wanted to share my lane with me, and she said "Don't worry I just swim until I can't anymore" She had no plan of action or workout planned, and that just seemed crazy to me. I easily get bored when I don't have a planned workout to do, and in turn I'll swim less and I certainly won't push myself.
Who knows, maybe some people like to just swim laps aimlessly until they are tired or bored, but if you are like me, you enjoy the challenge of good swim workouts. You have a goal, purpose and a MISSION when you go to the pool now. Not only do you want to finish the workout, you want to beat that workout into submission so you can move on to the next challenge. When you look at swimming like that, you are bound to become a better swimmer and naturally be in great physical shape.
The basic components of good swim workouts are the warm up, pre-set, main set, and cooldown. The pre-set is not a necessity if you are doing shorter workouts (
